Friday, August 22, 2008

Baldeo exits senate race; endorses Addabbo

Democratic sources confirm Albert Baldeo, who came within some 800 votes of ousting veteran Republican Sen. Serphin Maltese in 2006, will throw his support to the Democratic establishment candidate, Councilman Joe Addabbo, this afternoon and stop campaigning.

Technically speaking, Baldeo can't officially drop out of the race since it's too late to remove his name from the primary ballot.

The formal announcement will be made at 3 p.m. at Baldeo's law offices on Liberty Avenue. Also expected to attend are Addabbo, Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and Queens Democratic Chairman Joe Crowley.

Do you mean like the same kind of deal that Serf repeatedly cut with the Manton & Crowley? The quid pro quo was Maltese never faced opposition from the Democrats in return the Republicans would not challenge Democratic judgeships etc.

How about reality set in for Baldeo. No chance to beat Joe in a primary, could stay in with his self-created party line that he boasted of, spend his war chest that's mostly his own money and be the spoiler, and cost Dems the Senate. Oh yeah, he'd have a political future.

Problematic is a nice way to say the guy is nuts. He couldn't win the primary and he knew it. Got a pass to bail out so the fight can go from the flea to the elephant. Mucho more importante fight. Go Joe.

Baldeo got almost half the vote in a district with an overwhelming majority, in an election where the top of the ticket (Spitzer)got 76%statewide-- lots higher in Queens.

Maltese's deal with Manton (when they were both County Chairs) wasn't for judgeships, get real.

The deal was to keep his seat and the 30CD in West Queens safe in exchange for no serious opposition for 19CD and 22AD in East Queens, where a Republican with a pulse and a brain could actually get elected.

Sabini didn't get paid off, silly. The demographics of his district and the DUIA were going to make for a doubtful and expensive primary against Monserrate (who needed to be brought into the fold.)

maybe you should all go look at baldeo's campaign website. i checked it early this evening and it still has articles up with baldeo BLASTING addabbo. what kind of BS endorsement is this? looks like everyone has a price. manhattan joe is at it again.

Joe Addabbo has a $14,000 IRS tax lien on his house; it's no wonder he can't afford his attorney registration, and that's on $105K a year, how is he going to manage on $79K? Oh yea, he just tweed all you suckers!

And of course, no deals are ever made between Republicans in Queens to prevent primaries. Maybe the reason there are so very few Republican primaries in this borough is really because they have so few viable candidates. LOL

"And of course, no deals are ever made between Republicans in Queens to prevent primaries. Maybe the reason there are so very few Republican primaries in this borough is really because they have so few viable candidates. LOL"

Or maybe the Dems won the battle for the minority vote way back in the 60s and 70s and then re-districted the Rep. party out of existence?

Or maybe the Republicans in the Senate carved themselves out a couple of districts to maximize what little Republican strength there is in Queens. Lots of minorities are Dems, yes indeedy, but so are lots of non-minorities. Serf found that out in 2006. Baldeo, an unknown, carried areas, with no real Democratic Party support to boot, that Serf did not expect to lose.

More likely some made up title he can bandy about to make himself sound important in Richmond Hill. Judgeships don't come easy or fast to people who trash talk and personally dis Reich and co like this midget moron has.

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